Two months later, Draco reflected on his complicated feelings regarding hospitals as he finally arrived at St. Mungo's and checked his watch again.
He made a beautiful new start to his marriage here and the memory was still vivid and wonderful and he revisited the scene numerous times over the following days, making visits with Ginny to her father.
Today though, he was running late, and he'd have to apologize to both of them for that…as soon as he could find where he was supposed to be.
It was a large hospital and so many floors contained all kinds of magical injuries and he thought he could find them easily but certain events could make a man quite a lot less organized and in control than he was accustomed to being.
He finally calmed down enough to read the sign, headed for the lift, got out on the right floor, went along the corridor and found both Ginny and Arthur, reading magazines in the waiting area.
"I'm sorry," he said.
"That's fine." Ginny smiled. "We haven't been called back yet. I told Dad he really didn't need to come with me here, but"
"How many times over the years have you come with me to see the healer, back home, Gin?" Arthur cut in.
He was looking so much better than he had in the hospital two months ago. He finally started being more careful with his health and safety since the huge scare they'd all had.
He was visiting Ginny and Draco during a much-needed vacation and it was putting the color back into his cheeks. Ginny was the one who looked pale today.
"Seems like the least I could do," Arthur continued, "Since you're running to the bathroom every half hour and we even had to bring water and crackers for you to the check up."
"I'm fine," Ginny insisted again.
"I'm with your dad on this one," Draco told her.
His heart flipped when he looked at his wife. Eight weeks pregnant. When you'd been married for twelve years and decided it was time to start a family, you didn't waste any time, and Ginny being the daughter of Molly Weasley turned out to be fantastically fertile.
They conceived right away. He felt wonderful about it and terrified, too.
She'd been suffering a lot of morning sickness over the past two or three weeks. Not to mention afternoon sickness and evening sickness as well.
He wished the healers could get their terminology a little more accurate and honest, and he was worried. Was this normal?
At her first visit for which the healer was running late, Not Draco himself, he planned to find out.
A few minutes later, they were called in, while Arthur chose to remain in the waiting area with the magazines. Draco sweated through a long list of questions from the assistant healer.
He asked her about the sickness and she said some witches could get hit pretty badly, but that wasn't a good enough answer for him to stop his doubts.
Then she left and the healer came in. He did an exam and asked more question and agreed with the assistant, in response to Draco's question, that yes, morning sickness could hit some witches pretty bad…
…Although sometimes there could be underlying causes for it that needed investigation, he added.
Which was exactly what Draco had feared, and what he hadn't needed to hear.
Ginny seemed quite calm. Lying on the bed, she smiled at him and his chest started to hurt. He held her hand tighter, as the healer waved his wand over her belly. He wanted to kiss her so much that his mouth stung.
"This should reassure you," the healer said.
Waving his wand once more the healer brought up a smoky image of what seem to be a circular object. It made Draco feel queasy as he looked at it, Ginny was still smiling.
The healer waved his wand again and the shape appeared clearer. "There" he said. "Beautiful. Nice strong heartbeat."
"That's our baby?" Ginny squeaked.
"It is" the healer agreed
Draco couldn't speak.
"Wait a minute, though…" The healer frowned, flicked his wand and watched the smoky image. Another shape appeared, almost identical to the first.
"This may explain the degree of nausea you've been having, Mrs. Malfoy."
He focused more intently on the image and adjusted the image so both objects were in view at the same time. No doubt about it, there was two.
"Well, how about that!" the healer said. He lost his serious expression, now and was grinning from ear to ear.
"I guess its kind of upside-down appropriate, in a way, Mr. Malfoy, after all that magazine publicity you had a couple months ago."
"I guess it is," Draco had to agree. He'd started grinning now, too.
The healer moved the image again, and the two shapes got even clearer. They each had a blurred center, pulsing away in a steady rhythm.
"Oh, wow!" Ginny said. "Oh, wow!"
Oh wow, was right.
Draco could already see the headlines in the daily prophet, if not in Witch Weekly again. Around seven months from now, The Bachelor of the Year and his beautiful wife were going to have twins.
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